[ENGLISH] Welcome to our forum!

In this topic we would like to greet all international fans of "Pandora:First Contact" the inofficial successor of "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri". Welcome to the Pandora section of Civforum!

Pandora players from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other can find a German speaking community for their game here. However, we would also like to invite international players to our community and you will find a lot of English speakers among us. Civforum is an independent forum but here in this section for Pandora we're working together closely with the developers from Proxy Studios and with the publisher Slitherine.

As of now most of our content is German obviously. But we want to provide a platform for English players as well and you are more than welcome to add content! When our international community grows bigger we will be happy to provide more topics in English and later maybe even a whole subforum for Pandora in English.

For now please use this topic to communicate freely in English. But also don't hesitate to write in other topics (see list below) if your question fits there. As mentioned earlier most of us speak English well enough to help you.

However, before you can write here you will need to register at our forum. The short registration is in German and requires an answer to a random question in German. To register please click on the registration button in the upper right corner and follow the short tutorial at the end of this post. Finish your registration by clicking on the activation link sent to you by email. You will find the link right below the following line in that email:
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All who like to play multiplayer games will find players and a tutorial video for the multiplayer mode

At our live-evenings on twitch.tv we're streaming multiplayer matches and after the game we're publishing the live-recordings on YouTube; on the first three events on the 6th of february, 7th of March and 30th of May even the developer Lorenz Ruhmann pitted his skill against us. The next even is planned for September.

Modders can exchange views about their projects and support each other

BlackArchon is currently developing an international first big mod and amongst other things he is introducing the factions known from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

AIL is currently engaged as a freelancer in futher developing the game and especially its AI. He's offering his intermediate steps here for testing purposes.

I would love to join one of your MP game soon, but my time zone (I am 6 or 7 hours ahead of Germany) and my crap internet connection might make it challenging, as Zakor can testify :-)

Anyway I would love to give it a try nevertheless, don't hesitate posting your planned game time here so me and other english speakers can try to hook up! Also if you are looking for a player, don't hesitate hitting me on Steam, my pseudo is boulugre .

Hello and welcome to our forums! It's good to see players from "abroad" find their ways to us. In case you have any questions, especially because everything's so German in here, feel free to ask at any time. But beware: The peacefulness will come to an end once we face each other on Pandora.

Damn it would be nice if you could also join our tournament. But the ping problem (and your work) could make this impossible.
But there's still some time left before we start so maybe we can find a solution until then.

We might just give it a try and see if the latency really is that bad. I think the even bigger problem might be the time difference. Whenever we want to play in the evenings, it's almost morning at his place. So this will make compromises necessary.

Well maybe my connection had some influence but in the game we played I had to wait ~4 seconds at the beginning of every turn before I could do or move anything. This was and will be deadly in war times. If someone else hosts the game then Boulugre will have that heavy handicap.

I really don't mind having a high ping on my side, but I wouldn't want to deteriorate the speed and quality of your game on your side. I played a 3 player game with 2 european players ( I was not hosting) and despite my high ping the game was stable and i actually manage to do rather well.